Amazingly, I have not already written a blog post about the Edgar Laing Stores…so here it is. The picture above was taken during a HABS survey in 1971, shortly before the building was demolished as part of an urban renewal project on Manhattan’s Lower West Side. The project wiped out everything you can see in …
Above, some humans relax in the park after a mutant takeover. Below, Bridge 28 in Central Park, AKA the Gothic Bridge, carrying a pedestrian path over the bridle path. We recently completed a survey of Bridge 28, so it’s fresh in my memory.
The picture above is best viewed with the picture below, to explain the change in focus. (If you were ever a fan of The Outer Limits, “We are controlling transmission….We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical. We can roll the image; make it flutter. We can change the focus to a soft …
The photo above shows the rear, Fourth Avenue side of the Wanamaker store in Greenwich Village. Berenice Abbott took it in 1936 as part of her “Changing New York” project. She had no way of knowing that the store would be abandoned less than twenty years later and would burn down shortly after that in …
Courtesy of Marvel Comics, that’s She-Hulk (in her more-ordinary Jen Walters form) and the Jack of Hearts (don’t ask) strolling over Bow Bridge in Central Park. Here’s a roughly similar view, from the 1984 HABS survey, before two rounds of restoration work (one of them OSE’s):
